A CENTENARIAN’S DEATH.
LIVED UNDER FIVE SOVEREIGNS. THE PASSING"OF' HENRY BURLING. LPER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, Sept. 18. - Henry Burling, of Waikanae, centenarian, died on Sunday afternoon, in the presence of his son. Deceased suffered for about five weeks from bronchitis and a paralytic stroke. He was said- to have reached! the unusual age of 110 years. He had lived under five sovereigns, beginning with George IV. He remembered incidents of the battle of Waterloo, and was a married man, past the age of 30 when Wellington was founded. He is survived by thirteen children.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3326, 19 September 1911, Page 5
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94A CENTENARIAN’S DEATH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3326, 19 September 1911, Page 5
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